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Eduardo Noyola
Eduardo Noyola

Reputation: 161

Multiple with_items in an Ansible module block

I want to create multiple logical volumes with a variable file but it return a sintax error found character that cannot start any token, I have tried in different ways but still doesn't work

main.yml

---
- name: playbook for create volume groups
  hosts: localhost
  become: true
  tasks:
    - include_vars: vars.yml
    - name: Create a logical volume 
      lvol:
        vg: vg03
        lv: "{{ item.var1 }}"
        size: "{{ item.var2 }}"
      with_items: 
        - { var1: "{{ var_lv_name }}", var2: "{{ var_lv_size }}" }

vars.yml

var_lv_name:
  - lv05
  - lv06

var_lv_size:
  - 1g
  - 1g

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1268

Answers (2)

malpanez
malpanez

Reputation: 290

The previous answer it's totally correct but In my humble opinion we should be getting into the new way to do the things with loop and filters.

Here's my answer:

---
- name: playbook for create volume groups
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no
  become: true

  vars_files: vars.yml

  tasks:
    - name: Create a logical volume 
      lvol:
        vg: vg03
        lv: "{{ item[0] }}"
        size: "{{ item[1] }}"
      loop: "{{ var_lv_name | zip(var_lv_size) | list }}"

In this answer you're using the new way to use loops with keyword loop and using filters like zip and turning the result into a list type for iteration in the loop.

Upvotes: 0

Vladimir Botka
Vladimir Botka

Reputation: 68034

Use with_together. Test it first. For example,

    - debug:
        msg: "Create lv: {{ item.0 }} size: {{ item.1 }}"
      with_together:
        - "{{ var_lv_name }}"
        - "{{ var_lv_size }}"

gives (abridged)

  msg: 'Create lv: lv05 size: 1g'
  msg: 'Create lv: lv06 size: 1g'

Optionally, put the declaration below into the file vars.yml

var_lv: "{{ var_lv_name|zip(var_lv_size) }}"

This creates the list

  var_lv:
    - [lv05, 1g]
    - [lv06, 1g]

Use it in the code. The simplified task below gives the same results

    - debug:
        msg: "Create lv: {{ item.0 }} size: {{ item.1 }}"
      loop: "{{ var_lv }}"

Upvotes: 1

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